TRIBUNAL NEEDS REVIEWING by Andrew M. Potts
Anyone who read Harley Dennett’s report on gay Muslim asylum-seekers last week (“Refugee tribunal: you’re not gay”, SSO 877) will be outraged at some of the shocking judgments being handed down by the Refugee Review Tribunal board. But the case of Mohamed Sarhan and his Australian partner is just the latest in a string of mystifying Tribunal decisions going back years.
Immigration officers and Tribunal members have time and again shown a frightening lack of understanding of the situation these men face and an appalling narrow-mindedness when it comes to the realities of global gay identities.
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